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About Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930 | View Entire Issue (July 18, 1907)
ODD HUMAN MIXTURE JSffany Stranjje Characters at Hay- I wood Trial in Boinc. * Tlie world at large has had a some what nauseating peep into the court .room of Ada County , Idaho , whence emanated that awful story of crime rwhich will make the name of Harry Orchard a synonym for skulking and assassination through generations to -come , so writes a Boise correspondent "It. has become familiar with this hu m-in monstrosity. ' It has formed a aslight acquaintance with the fair- .vmindcd jurist , Fremont Wood , and Avith the gifted attorneys Richardson , " with his ponderous bludgeons of .speech ; the adroit Darrow , with his TShiniug lances of wit md satire ; Ilaw- ley , a veritable steam engine of thought * and language ; and Borah , whose pene- Ttratlve mind and piercing tongue are si terror to the witnesses who must vsubmit to cross-examination. But there is a phase of the trial with -which the public has not become ac- quainted. There is a strange conglom eration of humanity assembled here at -the call of the State and the defense. 'The rough , uncouth life of the mines flnd the mining settlements touches el bows with the polished upper crust of society , and the contrasts which result .nre striking. We find the educated , cultured daughter of an ex-Governor taking the seat but recently vacated by -arch-criminal , and we do not wonder - 4 < der that her surroundings confuse her . testimony. An ex-Governor follows a * aegro servant in giving evidence and a former lieutenant governor exchanges -.seats with one of Orchard's alleged -confederates. The trial IB a succession -of contrasts such as could not be found anywhere save in this region of con- rtrasts , where yoii can enjoy all the -comforts of civilization , while but a rfew miles beyond lies utter desolation. Scattered about the court room are "Other men who place little more value 'lhan did Orchard on human life other rfchan Iheir own. They are town mar- sknls , Pihkerton detectives and gun : men who are regarded as guardians of the law in the mining communities. Some of these are the "unterrified" deputies who in the days of the bull j > un helped to starve the miners. Oth- - srs.are former cowboys , fellows of the Qlough Rider stripe , who assisted the tState governments of the West to pre- 'D order after the Spanish-American war was ended. They show their im portance on the streets , where they .jostle unoffending citizens , and several scraps have been averted by a very -narrow margin. There ds another body of men liere -who represent the law after a fashion. They are the Pinkerton squad. They < lisguise themselves by wearing broad- vfariimned , high-crowned slouch hats such as miners wear while off duty. "They loaf around the street corners , -in the hotel lobbies/and at the rail road stations , and their eyes are al- - < * vays open , though they have had Ht- -tle occasion to use their hands. Some of these men were In the Homestead -.riots and some of them have seen ser vice in South America and In Europe , -tracing famous criminals. It is this strange mixture of human ity which gives additional flavor to a .icase already pretty well seasoned with .Siuman interest Brief JCetvs Items. By an executive order the employes of -ihe government printing office in Wash ington will be given a half holiday on Saturdays during July , August and September - -tember , the same as is granted to the em ployes of other government departments. John Getterman , the interstate com- Tmprce commission expert , who visited Oklahoma recently and investigated -freight rate and cotton seed oil trust matters - is in Hamburg Germany investigating * - ters , now , , tigating the Hamburg-American line of -.steamers in regard to excessive freight > rates. Dick Barnes , the aged man charged with the probably fatal shooting of ( Rich- sard Williams , was captured at his home , .eight miles southeast of Tulsa , I. T. He is now in the Tulsa jail , waiting a hear ing before the United States commission- -er. Barnes says he is 96 years of age , Janie Frizzell , the 5-year-old daughter - ter of Sir. and Mrs. John Frizzell of the Woodburg ranch , south of Colorado Springs , Cole met a sudden and fright- iul death as the result of being bitten "by a rattlesnake. The fangs of the reptile tile pierced an artery in the calf of the 3ez , and death resulted in a short time. GREAT PACIFIC FLEET. Evnn to End Active Career by Talc ing "VVurxhlps Around Horn. Deeper significance of an interna tional character than has yet been at tached to the senditfg of the fleet of American battleships to the Pacific coast shortly is now admitted by those in close touch with the situation. While It has been constantly declared by the Navy Department that no menace to Japan is intended by the dispatch of the fleet and Ambassador Aoki of that country has asserted that Japan will not construe the presence of the fleet in the Pacific as such , it is understood in Washington that the arrival of the battleship squadrons in the Pacific BEAR ADMIRAL EVANS. marks the initial step toward the main tenance of a permanent fighting fleet in the Pacific hereafter. Whether the entire fleet of eighteen vessels which is now destined for the Pacific remain there or not , it is as serted on the authority of well in formed officials that the American navy in the Pacific will never again be in adequate to cope with any emergncy on that side of the continent unless there is a vast change in the aspect of international politics. In addition to the necessity of urg ing upon Congress the needs of the navy on the Pacific side , which will now be accentuated by the presence of the fleet there , the administration is de clared by close students in Washing ton to have taken time by the forelock in sending the fleet to the Pacific just previous to the negotiation of a new treaty with Japan. The present com- ercial and amity treaty expires In 1911 and the progressive party of Japan is already insisting as a political issue that the new Japanese exclusion law , harring coolies from the United States , shall be modified in the new treaty. Extraordinary stops are already un der way to send the fleet around the Horn as soon as possible. Rear Admiral Evans , who will likely end his active naval career by taking these warships around the Horn , is now in New York arranging the preliminary details of the trip. Already arrangements for the immediate shipment of 50,000 tons of coal from Baltimore have been made. In addition the general board has form ulated a plan for the transfer of the entire force of the Brooklyn navy yard to the Pacific coast in the event of labor troubles there and the establish ment in the Pacific of a duplicate yard. The fleet in its journey to the Pacific will practically repeat the famous voy age of the battleship Oregon , made just previous to the Spanish-American war. Takes Army Commander Prisoner. Raisuli , the notorious bandit has taken prisoner the commander of the Sultan's army and will hold him for a big ran som and the guarantee of his own ap pointment as governor of Tangier. Mint Director for Chicago. Director of the Mint George E. Rob erts has accepted the presidency of the Commercial National bank of Chicago. SO-Cent Gas I rrr in Th.e report of the special master in the suit brought by the Consolidated Gas Company of New York to upset the 80- cent gas law finds that the price is un just to the company and that the law denies equal rights to the company by reason of the penalties imposed for viola tions. The master finds , further , that the entire earnings under the law would be only 2.8 per cent on the total assets. The decision of the Circuit Court will not be rendered before thirty days. STAMBAED OH , KING FACETS JUDGE LAKDIS IN FEDEEA1 COTTEX , JOHN D. BEFORE JUDGE. Oil Magnate in Court for First Tim in Nineteen Yeitr.n. In Chicago Saturday John Davison Rockefeller , billionaire , head of Amer ica's greatest trust , entered a court room for the first time in nineteen years. By the testimony of the oil king and his associates , all the information which Judge Laudis has been seeking for the purpose of fixing the size of the fine he is expected to impose on the Standard Oil Company of Indiana , was obtained. It was announced immedi ately after the hearing that the court was through with Rockefeller as a wit ness. ness.These These secrets were revealed by Rockefeller and his aids : Standard Oil Company of New Jer sey holds $400.500 of the $1,000,000 worth of the capital stock of the Stand ard Oil Company of Indiana. Outstanding capital stock of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey amounts to $98,300,000. Net earnings of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey for the years 1903 , 1904 > Hnd 1905 approximate $179- 800,000. Dividends paid on the capital stock of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey during those years approximated 40 per cent a year. Standard Oil Company of New Jer sey holds "by far the major portion" of the stock of the Union Tank Line Company. Union Tank Line Company , with a capital stock of $3,500,000 , is $5,000- 000 in debt" and has paid no dividends since 1901. Judge Landis probed into the secrets of Standard Oil , hidden for years , and obtained answers to all the questions he had asked the defending attorneys by the time he had examined five of the twelve -witnesses who were in court He then adjourned further hearing of the case until Monday morning , making it necessary for Rockefeller and the other witnesses to remain in Chicago over Sunday. A gasp of awe ran around the crowd ed room when Rockefeller , pinned down by Judge Landis after he had claimed ignorance of much of the- in formation asked , said that the divi dends paid by the Standard Oil Com pany during three years covered by the Indiana indictment amounted to 40 per cent This proved to be the sensational item in the testimony. Thousands of persons besieged the Federal building fully half an hour before the arrival of Rockefeller. They entered the structure and fought their way past the outside guards to the sixth floor , where they were stopped at the entrance to Judge Landis' court room. Scattered among the spectators were a sjore of secret service operatives. They wore no uuiforin. displayed no in- siniiia of oflice. yet they pushed in and Tat an OIK : the members of the crowd. " hiel : to confusion and a riot en- i : > j ! . L.-r.vyjrs demanding admission in1 v'\irt were knocked down in ' : : : jif'.j.i which followed. T..1 oj.-tjcrlty of the spectators were - . . --0 SA.tv-ii when Mr. Rockefeller . " - ' . - rran L-J at the end of the ; . . . .Ij.i fil l > y a few Iriends and > v.-i.- . * : . A pr.ss..seway was opened - ; , . : . . . - ' : u Lti vrilked slowly down the - i v . ; . ! i K'.Mir : room , the crowd .Ij-x1-i ! ) Ytil : liini. eager to catch ; : - Vjy 3D-ealed ! richest man The Standard Oil Company Monday refused Judge Landis' invitation to submit testimony to show that it never had violated the interstate commerce law prior to 1903. Judge Landis there upon set Aug. 3 as the date for the ea- tering of the final order , at which-time he will impose a fine upon the com pany of not less than $1,000,000 and not more than $29,240,000. The attor neys for the defense replied to Judge Landis' invitation in a bitingly sarcas tic statement , which openly criticised his attitude in asking for the informa tion. DEWEY FOR FLEET IN PACIFIC. Thinks It Best to Have Ships There in Interests oJ Peace. An interview with Admiral Dewey in regard to the transfer of the battleship fleet to the Pacific ocean has thrown much light on the motives of the gov ernment in the movement. "It is a pity we have not ships enough to keep pow erful fleets in both oceans , but since we have not it seems that in the interests of peace it is best at this time that our fleet should be in the Pacific , " said ADMIRAL DEWEY. the admiral. "This cruiser transfer , or whatever you like to call it , is a mission of peace. I do not think it likely that this country will become seriously involved with any power. But if trouble should come by any chance it is well to be fully pre pared for it. " i- , - . - "It is ecessarv for us to hold the balance of sea "power on the Pacific. The defenses on that coast are not up to the standard of the Atlantic. That the na tion that has this power controls the sit uation was proven in our war with Spain. SCHMITZ GETS FIVE YEARS. San Francisco's Grafting Mayor Sentenced to Penitentiary. Mayor Eugene E. Schmitz of San Fran cisco must spend five years in the peni tentiary. Passing of sentence in Judge Dunne's court in the Golden Gate City was accompanied by a scene o wildest tumult Convicted of graft , sentenced and diegrsiced , Scbmitz hurled defiance at the judge , while the crowd that jam med the court room set up a tremendous EUGENE SCHMITZ. cheer at the triumphant ending of one chapter of San Francisco's fight to over throw the corrupt machine which ruled the city. Judge Dunne before passing sentence arraigned the prisoner in harsh language. Schmitz interrupted the court time after time , careless of consequences , protest ing at further humiliation. Attorney PainaU oinetl with his client , protesting until lie uarely ecaic5 & ] sent o prison for contempt. Schmitz was de fiant to the end. After it was all over he repeated his statement that he would ran for re-election in the fall. QUACK U. S. WABSHIPS GOING TO THE PACIPIC. JAP INSULTS UNCLE SAM. Official Washington Stirred by Slur of Mikado's Admiral. T\he \ highest officials now in Wash ington have been stirred to strong in dignation at the gratuitous insult hand ed out to the United States by one of the chief officers of Japan's navy and a man who stands close to the Mika do , in an interview printed in the Ilochi at Tokyo. The slurs expressed by Admiral Sakamoto on the American navy in this interview are angrily re sented by the military and naval chiefs and , it is believed , will add force to the ill-feeling that is being engendered against Japan all over the United States. Both military and civil officials of high rank , who , of course , refuse to bo quoted , admit that the insulting utter ances of one of the Mikado's chief offi cers have greatly intensified the grav ity of the situation between , the United States and Japan and increased the possibilities of war between the two countries. The text of the interview as printed in Jthe Hochi is as follows : "Should hostilities break out between Japan and America , the result would be indecisive , owing to a want of proper bases of operations. Such bases as- exist are too far distant for practical purposes. "Even the nearest bases namely , the Pescadores , Cayjtfe and Manila are at a distance o f COO miles from one another. Even if the Washington gov ernment should decide on a war , it Is doubtful If the Americans serving in , the navy are sufficiently patriotic to fisht. "American naval officers are brill iant figures at balls and social gather ings , but they are very deficient in pro fessional training and experience. It is too much to erpect a burning patriot ism In the American naval service In ease of war with Japan. It is very likely that most of the crews would desert and leavd the ships. " Admiral Sakamoto commanded the ill-fated battleship Yashima when she struck a mine and sunk off Port Arthur in May , 1904. Subsequently he was made naval commandant at Dalny for the Port Arthur operations. The transfer of the American battle ship squadron to the Pacific coast has caused a storm. A significant feature of the affair is that all of the vessels will be stripped as though for battle , and will be supplied with a full supply of ammunition and -arms. In outlining the plans for the nest ses sion of the Australian Parliament. Pre mier Carruthers proposed the enactment of pensions for invalids , subventions to aid friendly societies to enable the poor est persons to purchase annuities. He argues that this policy tends "to uplift the community , increase the inducements to thrift and aid in the battle against improvidence. " i ' - " ' ' 7' J. TT"v ' ? " * x * ' % " % : " % ' * & * * * ' ' * * " " - , \ - ; * , - - xy- ; : lm